I haven’t had luck or even tried. Mostly, people won’t know what RCS implies. But there are still important differences that Signal brings to the table. Signal is not merely E2EE on communications. Signal is actually a combination of many privacy protocols to ensure private communications, where E2EE is only one of them. They have a lot of protocol innovations in key exchanges, group management, metadata storage, contact discovery, etc. RCS does not guarantee E2EE, it needs to be implemented by the ISPs, so using it you don’t really know if the other end’s ISP supports it, so the RCS negotiation will downgrade to the common denominator.

Your address book is uploaded to Facebook servers when you use Whatsapp. And each time you interact, they know with who and link this information with other profiles and users of the Meta products.

And it is because of these lousy developers that live inside a Google world that people don’t want to use Firefox.

They aren’t E2EE so all messages and activity are recorded. They are subject to to very different rules than regular chats or groups.

Oppenheimer on Imax this Wednesday, parties on Friday and Saturday.

Are you looking for arguments against Signal?

I think the biggest one everyone will find and is very difficult to overcome is “My friends aren’t there”.

Other arguments like “it’s centralized”, “It’s in the US”, “It doesn’t have feature X”, “The client app doesn’t have fancy stickers” are workable, have explanations or are a matter of time.

Thos saying “It needs to support SMS”, are americans that weren’t really using signal, but a glorified text app.

I used influencers as an example, that’s true that they’re everywhere. But there’s many communities I follow that don’t care about Twitter politics, and they got little interest or even information to consider moving elsewhere.

The analogy of simply choosing different software doesn’t apply here. Because I can switch my os or calculator app. Those choices don’t depend on other people. Sadly, we still depend on being able to read content that other parties we care for still publish on Twitter even though I disagree with it as a to. Maybe they do or dont care. I can disagree with Twitter and like my influencers. For that, something like nitter is a good step in the direction. I want to move. As muchas I’d like to snap my fingers and have everyone into my network of personal choice. It cannot happen.

I feel that rather than DRM being illegal, Google and Chromium browsers having monopoly on the web is what allows these crazy ideas to have any room.

If the browser market was more evenly spread and there were more parties involved, these ideas woldn’t fly so easily.

I renewed phones late last year and I pondered on getting the FP4, but I was unhappy with the camera and even though it’s replaceable it is not upgradeable. I got instead a Pixel 6A and it’s a pleasure to use (tolerating all the Google stuff).

I have high expcetations for FP5

I’m surprised at Telegram, I expected more information to be available, since it’s a central database with all conversations. But I can see how they simply don’t collaborate and protect by obscurity making data unavailable.